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Bedraggled   /bɪdrˈægəld/   Listen
Bedraggled

adjective
1.
Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.  Synonym: draggled.  "Scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
2.
In deplorable condition.  Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down.  "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"


Bedraggle

verb
(past & past part. bedraggled; pres. part. bedraggling)
1.
Make wet and dirty, as from rain.  Synonym: draggle.





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"Bedraggled" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a bedraggled handkerchief. "They'll have to struggle along somehow for a while; we have orders to round up all the shoonoon and send them ...
— Oomphel in the Sky • Henry Beam Piper
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... bedraggled and worn out after her long excursion, and took a very humble lodging in the little City which had once been all hers and the capital of her kingdom. But she was there, all the same, peeping out of a small window to see whether she would be welcome if she went out and took ...
— The Little City Of Hope - A Christmas Story • F. Marion Crawford
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... in my father's black Utrecht velvet and untanned riding boots looked a very different man to the bedraggled castaway who had crawled like a conger eel into our fishing-boat. It seemed as if he had cast off his manner with his raiment, for he behaved to my mother during supper with an air of demure gallantry which sat upon him better than the pert and flippant carriage which he had ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle
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... hands down from his shoulders and drew his face away from the mouldy-smelling old shawl, he looked toward the door, and Ruth stood in the entrance. Her eyes blazed with wrath, but as she saw the faded and bedraggled dress and moth-eaten shawl and looked into the tear-stained motherly old face ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon
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... impressions that crowded Nan's memory after the wild night on Music Mountain, the most vivid was that of a noticeably light-stepping and not ungraceful fat man advancing, hat in hand, to greet her as she stood with de Spain, weary and bedraggled in the aspen grove. ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
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